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Gabriella Battaini Dragoni opened today, at the Council of Europe office in Venice, the seminar on "Corruption and its trends: a policy challenge", together with Michele Nicoletti, President of the Italian Delegation to PACE. The workshop organised by PACE Political Affairs Committee, in...

Speaking at the opening of the conference, the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni, stressed the need for a unified approach to integrity in sport to address challenges: “there will be no progress on match-fixing unless governments agree to, and...

Deputy Secretary General Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni met today the Deputy Secretary General of the OECD, Mari Kiviniemi. The meeting focused on the continuing good cooperation between the two organisations and the need for coordination, for example in the area of fighting corruption. Other topics...

As a continuation of the Day of Ukrainian Reforms, Ukrainian Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko met today in Strasbourg with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe to discuss the co-operation between the organization and Ukraine, and to sign on behalf of Ukraine the European Agreement on the...

Gabriella Battaini Dragoni exchanged views with Chaloka Beyani, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons. The conversation focused on challenges, rights and solutions for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Council of Europe member states.

Ambassador Marco Marsilli took up his duties as Permanent Representative of Italy to the Council of Europe. He met Deputy Secretary General Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni. See also: Italy and the Council of Europe

“The Macolin Convention is the first and only international treaty to clamp down on the serious, transnational, organised crime that is match-fixing. A crime which not only threatens the rule of law, but which is especially corrosive for trust in sport because it cuts against our most basic...

Russian Justice Minister Alexander Konovalov met the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni, and signed the Protocol No. 15 amending the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms at the Council of Europe headquarters in...

Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni exchanged views today with Laura Boldrini, President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. President Boldrini is in Strasbourg in the framework of European Conference of Presidents of Parliament.